A Federation star chart depicting the location of Andor
Andor is a location in Federation space.
TNG: "Conspiracy", "Yesterday's Enterprise", and others mark references to Andor in the Next Generation. In the first instance, Andor appeared as an item on a large star chart behind a chair in the room where Dexter Remmick was killed. In the second, Andor is listed in an alternate timeline on a monitor showing Klingon progress in their war with the Federation.
In DS9: "What You Leave Behind", viewscreens on the station's promenade and replimat advertised speedy trips to 'scenic Andor' on the latest warp ships.
In 2373 Kai Winn asked Captain Sisko if the Federation would sacrifice Andor to protect Bajor from the Dominion.DS9: "In the Cards"
Among the suggestions that Worf offered up for his honeymoon with Jadzia was a mountain climbing expedition on Andor. DS9: "Change of Heart"
After Betazed fell during the Dominion war, many believed Andor might next be threatened. DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight"
In 2374, the Federation embassy on Andor was noted as a prior workplace of Lisa Cusak. DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice"
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Background
Andor may be another name for the Andorian homeworld Andoria, although this is open to interpretation. In Enterprise's season 4 DVD, writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have said they made the Andorian homeworld a satellite of a gas giant to help explain why both names were used interchangeably, and hoped to set Andor as the gas giant and Andoria as the moon. (This could be, since Andorians might refer to their world in the way Americans call their country the United States at times, and at other times America; it might also explain how outsiders like Worf or Kai Winn might mistakenly transpose the names.)
And yet, since references to an embassy and to mountain climbing render Andor-as-gas-giant untenable, a simple reversal of the writers' intent may do -- with the giant Andoria orbited by the homeworld Andor.
This accords with the publications of the Long Pause between the classic series and the first few films: the homeworld is called Andor by fleet command's Introduction to Navigation booklet in Star Trek Maps, and by the fleet's own medical manual -- sources which are decidedly nontrivial. (These Bantam and Ballantine publications may be citation enough, and are exceeded only, perhaps, by the era's twin rosetta stones of Blueprints and Tech Manual, the last of which refers only obliquely to the Andorian system and never names its homeworld.)
Apocrypha
In Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 1, Thirishar ch'Thane and Prynn Tenmei mark the differences between the names Andor and Andoria. Growing up, ch'Thane called his own world Andoria (though Tenmei knew it as Andor), and called Tenmei's planet Terra, only to find later that Terrans call it Earth.
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